If any of you have tried to call me on my landline in the past – oh… maybe year or so? – you would have noticed that I didn’t pick up. This was because of the addition of this little monster darling girl to the household. Turned out that, just like Azar, Morcilla has a penchant for chewing on electrical cords, especially the skinny ones, and soon enough she had discovered the two cords leading from the phone on the table over to the wall, and chomped them both in half. So I put “repair or get new telephone cords” on my To-Do list but realised Morcilla would just do it again unless I found another place to put the phone deck, closer to the phone connection and plug socket. Somehow during all this time I didn’t find a solution until my recent day trip to IKEA when I spotted this little silver shelf and thought it would be just the thing. And so it is. Got it mounted yesterday with a minimal amount of swearing (WHY IKEA have you stopped including screws with things like these???) and now all cords are (not so neatly) tucked behind the router. Out of sight, out of mind? Let’s hope so.

My big beautiful Sunny was born 21 years ago today, at about this hour (10.15 am).
He was born into my hands and died in my arms 16 years later. I still miss him.

Medium cat Luna was off doing something else at the time, but I mean honestly! Loki is easily twice the size of Morcilla – and she’s full grown! It’s no wonder I worry about them “playing” together sometimes, because Loki doesn’t seem to know his own strength. But mostly they all get on great. Can you tell another #getaway is coming up? But this time they’ll only be left to their own devices overnight…